Consider a single blade of living grass. Neither the elemental beings inside the grass nor the human staring at the grass from normal consciousness can really create or see the whole. The whole is created in the middle, when the spiritual fire of love and knowledge can craft something artistically and scientifically in the middle zone, where we elaborate in language and conceptual fruitful form, a new human notion of grass. We live into the essence of the invisible light of the grass, the grass pulses back into the dying inscription into human consciousness as mental image. This requires us to carefully and self-consciously morph into the life of the plant through spiritual scientific research consciousness, keeping our thinking and our I awake and alert.
Through this research, the following concepts arise: Grass is the steeple which takes the mineral earth and forms a new substance, striving to meet the heavenly in its neutral leaf formation. It provides a channel where the liquid falling from the heavens can nourish the earth below, while the blade sprouts and slowly turns in the sweet air. The blade of grass shows the impossible desire of flight, escaping gravity and with a million of its brothers and sisters, it rises, rises toward the nourishment from cosmic sun, moon, stars and sky. But it weaves its roots through the cool soil. And the human can find some of his or her own nature inside the grass, if he or she can create a concept as a formative open chalice for meeting soul, elemental, and spiritual life in nature. This is where our work can pass over into anthroposophical fruitful research. One can then, with the will of the I, look into where this new concept of grass intersects with other concepts – on which side, at which point? Where does the formative impulse cause the repetitive growth of the blade of grass to connect with the concept of respiration? How does it connect with the concept and activity of oxygen? How does the spirit of oxygen, carbon, and grass work with world-respiration? Here we can find in a single blade of grass the mysteries of the I-forces that live inside the human, as we stand erect, walking on the earth, a self-conscious link between earth and heaven. We are an upside-down walking plant, carrying its warmth around with it.
